Aug 24
This is the week we have the Revival at church…The tradition was : As told to me thru the years by my Grandpa Astor J. Delk his Daddy was Frank Delk and his Mother Essie Skeen Delk Preachers would come together and hold revival under a brush arbor built for the occasion on the hill …
Aug 23
Piney Grove was founded on August 13, 1871… My Grandpa use to tell me about the Big Meetings he attended as a boy. Tomorrow will be full of memories of precious loved ones now gone on… This evening I have had tears at every turn in the kitchen. I am so very blessed. I have …
Aug 06
Looking at other people and their lives. From the other side of the fence where the grass is not so green… Or so it seems…to us… We look at what seems to us.. a charmed life…Everything… that we think we would be happy with if only we had that life…Children, Spouse, Family, Friends, a Good …
Aug 04
Growing up in Jackson Creek there were not many children close by to play with. On Sundays we would all gather for a meal at Grandmas after church at Piney Grove UMC and then the afternoon would be spent playing in the barn , or fields and down by the creek. Of course for some …
Aug 03
Please pray for my family during this difficult, hard time. My cousin passed away yesterday suddenly and without any warning. We will be working our way thru this most difficult time…He left a wife and two grown children. Honestly I am so up set… I can not imagine how it must be for his Daddy, …
Jul 20
I was given this old photo from the 1940’s…This is of my Daddy, his brothers and some cousins… Yes that is my Grandparents house (My great grandparents too) and that is feed in the feed sacks on the front porch! LOL! No …wicker furniture or rockers on the wrap around porch! It was a real …
Jun 02
We have been busy! Drover and I went to a AHBA herding trial in Berryville VA Memorial Day weekend. We earned a HTAD Level III Title on Geese! We worked hard (and I was nervous! ) So we did not title in anything else …But had some respectable scores considering I was so nervous! This …
Mar 27
My Daddy was a great man…He was well loved by his friends and family. Respected and his word was his bond. He was a strong person physically and mentally…and smart. No one knew grading like my Daddy…He could put a backhoe anywhere and do anything with one. Instinctively he knew which way water …
